Communist treachery and the Nehru Dynasty
This is the fifth part of the IndiaFacts series on distortions of Indian History.
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Another source of distortion of this period of history is rooted in the treacherous role played by the Communists. This is a matter of record, though Communist intellectuals, by monopolizing institutions like the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), are trying to whitewash their role.
To understand their treachery, we should recognize that Communist leaders in other colonized countries were first and foremost nationalists who fought for freedom. Next, they came from the masses. This is true of leaders like Mao of China, Ho Chi Min of Vietnam, Fidel Castro of Cuba and several others. Indian Communist leaders on the other hand come mostly from the English educated elite. To them Communism (or Marxism) is not an ideology to help the masses, but a fad that keeps them apart as elite from the common people. They have always looked to the West for everything. So when India was fighting for her freedom, the Communists were agents of foreign governments like Germany, Russia, Britain and finally even Pakistan!
When the Second World War began, because of the Stalin-Hitler Pact, the Communists found themselves on the same side as Nazi Germany. They were ordered by Stalin to support Hitler’s war as a war against imperialist countries like Britain and France. When Germany attacked Russia in June 1941, the Indian Communists made a 180-degree turn and began supporting the British!
This meant working against national leaders like Gandhi and Subhas Bose, who were seen as enemies of the British. The great historian R.C. Majumdar wrote:
During the great national upsurge of 1942, the Communists acted as stooges and spies of the British Government… Mr. Joshi (of the Communist Party) was placing at the disposal of India the services of his Party Members… Joshi had, as General Secretary of the Party, written a letter in which he offered ‘unconditional help’ to the then Government of India and the Army GHQ to fight the 1942 underground workers and the Azad Hind Fauz (INA) of Subhas Chandra Bose… Joshi’s letter revealed that the CPI was receiving financial aid from the British Government, had a secret pact with the Muslim League…
As part of their pact with the Muslim League, the Communists openly supported the demand for Pakistan, “but went much further by saying that every linguistic group in India had a distinct nationality and was entitled … to secede.” After independence, the Communists struck a deal with the Nizam’s Government in Hyderabad and joined hands with the Razakars to fight Hyderabad’s accession to India with Pakistan’s help. When Sardar Patel sent troops into Hyderabad, Kasim Rizvi ran away to Pakistan, handing over the bulk of his guns and other arms to the Communists. The Communists kept up an armed insurrection in the Telengana region for a few years until ordered to stop by the Soviet dictator Stalin.
The Communists supported China’s attack on India and 1962 and also the Chinese nuclear tests, while vehemently opposing India’s successful tests at Pokharan. It is this formidable record of treachery that the Communist intellectuals are trying to erase by controlling institutions like the ICHR, NIEPA and NCERT. They have now joined hands with the Sonia Congress in a desperate struggle for survival. They are the strongest apologists for terrorism in the name of Jihad.
Independent India: Dynastic blunders
For over forty years after independence, India was ruled directly or indirectly by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. As a result, national interest was often sacrificed for personal dynastic interests. On at least three occasions, Nehru sacrificed India’s interests for the sake of international glory for himself.
First is his well-known blunder of referring Kashmir to the United Nations when Indian troops were on the verge of driving the Pakistanis out of Kashmir. The next was his betrayal of Tibet to please China and gain glory for himself in Korea. The third was his failure to settle the border with China because of his preoccupation with his fantasy of PanchaSheel. Nehru’s colossal blunder in Kashmir is well known, so I will briefly discuss his fiasco in dealing with Tibet and China.
But first I want to highlight an important but often overlooked point. It was not Pakistan that created the Kashmir problem. Nehru created the problem with his two blunders: referring Kashmir to the United Nations and agreeing to the present ceasefire line or the LOC. At the very least Nehru should have asked for the Indus River as the Line of Control. Similarly, what I want to do next is explain that it was not China but again Nehru that created the border problem with China with his multiple blunders. With his blunder upon blunder Nehru sacrificed thousands of lives— both soldiers and civilians. His grandson Rajiv Gandhi contributed his own share of blunders by sending Indian troops into Sri Lanka unprepared. Let me next examine the Chinese scene.
Continued in the next part.
There may be some oversimplifications about communists here…
1. The communists drew not only from British educated elite, but also from the Anushilan marxists, from HSRA members, from Chittagong Armoury raid group, from the Gadhar group … In the south, they got the cream of desi recruits using their entry into the Congress Socialist Party between 1936 and 1940 …
1a. They also recruited heavily from desi intellectuals: through the activities of IPTA: urdu poets, hindi artistes, theatre artists (including Prithviraj Kapoor’s group, telugu and malayali intellectuals, and apparently Bengalai intellegentsia as well …
2. However, it may be true to say that they took guidance often, from the British or the Soviets, and later from China … due to conditions in which they operated the links with the international were not continuous, and so much of the time initiatives were their own native genius, and course corrections came from international interventions … thus the guidance was most often in the form of course correction …
3. Communists did not only support the call for Pakistan, but did far much more for the muslim league till 1946, when they may have had one more course correction …
4. For a time, the communist Hyderabad committee seems to have explored a common front with Kasim razvi, but this was denounced by the andhra group … which assumed control over the armed struggle … it seems that arms were not voluntarily given by the razakars, but beaten out of them by the communists … this explains the continued popularity of the communists in the telangana peasantry for decades after …
5. The communists split into two over the Chinese attack of 1962, with the Dange group that later developed into the CPI, opposing China and supporting the government of India, while the others who developed into CPM and naxalites, supporting China against India ..
Please don’t demonize Anushilan Samiti and Master Da of Chittagong Armoury Raid as Marxists. They were of a much higher intellectual calibre than the leftist and communist parasites, who would sell their own mothers for trifling gains. They were first and foremost revolutionaries from Bengal with uncompromising passion and love for the nation, whose fervour rattled the British no end. The entire lineage of successive governments has never built a memorial to our revolutionaries. Similarly they will never build a memorial to our fallen soldiers, who have the same revolutionary fervour of making the supreme sacrifice for the nation. Sri Aurobindo, who founded the Anushilan Samiti is one of the greatest statesman and leaders India has ever produced. It will take light years for sham secular to fathom the Guru’s teachings.
Namaste Talukdar ji,
Subodh Roy and Kalpana Dutt, the youngest male and female participants in the Chittagong armoury raid, both joined the communist party of India later. Kalpana Dutt is better known as Kalpana Joshi, since she married PC Joshi, who was the General Secretary of CPI till 1948.
Jugantar leader Narendranath is better known as MN Roy, a comintern leader and a founder of CPI until his expulsion by Stalin in mid thirties. A minority section broke away from the Anushilan movement and joined the CPI. Other Anushilan Marxists worked with the CSP. In BC Roy’s time Anushilan group was active in Congress. Please also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Anushilan_Samiti
The names you mentioned were not originally communists, but for some reason they joined the communists, particularly after Sri Aurobindo quit active political life after his incarceration in Alipore Conspiracy Case and subsequent release, thanks to efforts of Chittaranjan Das. The group included Khudiram Basu, Prafulla Chaki and Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother Barindra Ghosh and 37 other nationalists. One only need recall Chittaranjan Das’ ringing declaration: “My appeal to you is this, that long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, the agitation will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will be looked upon as the poet of patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and the lover of humanity. Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed and re-echoed, not only in India but across distant seas and lands. Therefore, I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the bar of this Court, but before the bar of the High Court of History.”
Namaste Taluqdar ji,
Please note that I never claimed that they were originally communists. In fact, in my intervention point 1. I stated “The communists drew not only from British educated elite, but also from the Anushilan marxists, from HSRA members, from Chittagong Armoury raid group,” …
Thus the communists drew cadre from Anushilan group especially those who became marxists in jail. They did not supply cadre to Anushilan samiti.
In other words, there is no difference between our understanding.
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